Policies/Charset

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This page describes why the text encoding in spec files should be in UTF-8 or ASCII, and what kind of problems would arise otherwise.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Why? 2.1 Problematic to read your file 2.2 Editors may damage spec file 3 How to fix? 3.1 In spec file itself 3.2 In various config files 3.3 UTF-8 enabled editors